| NOUN | shape | prism | a polyhedron with two congruent and parallel faces (the bases) and whose lateral faces are parallelograms |
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| artifact | prism, optical prism | optical device having a triangular shape and made of glass or quartz |
| Sounds | prih'zahm | |
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| Rhymes | abolitionism ... zirconium: 557 rhymes with ahm... | |
| Meaning | A polyhedron with two congruent and parallel faces (the bases) and whose lateral faces are parallelograms. | |
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| Narrower | parallelepiped, parallelopiped, parallelepipedon, parallelopipedon | A prism whose bases are parallelograms |
| quadrangular prism | A prism whose bases are quadrangles | |
| triangular prism | A prism whose bases are triangles | |
| Broader | polyhedron | A solid figure bounded by plane polygons or faces |
| Spanish | prisma | |
| Catalan | prisma | |
| Adjectives | prismatic | of or relating to or resembling or constituting / constituting a prism |
| Meaning | optical device having a triangular shape and made of glass or quartz; used to deviate a beam or invert an image. | |
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| Synonym | optical prism | |
| Part of | biprism | An optical device for obtaining interference fringes |
| spectroscope, prism spectroscope | An optical instrument for spectrographic analysis | |
| telescope, scope | A magnifier of images of distant objects | |
| Narrower | erecting prism | A right-angled optical prism used to turn an inverted image upright |
| Broader | optical device | A device for producing or controlling light |
| Spanish | prisma, prisma óptico | |
| Catalan | prisma, prisma òptic | |
| Adjectives | prismatic | of or relating to or resembling or constituting / constituting a prism |
| prismatic | exhibiting spectral colors formed by refraction of light through a prism | |
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